The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
Ramon de Muntaner
Also known as Muntaner, the Catalan Worthy, Munt.
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 8
Muntaner’s name arrives with the weight of lived experience: a Catalan soldier who also set events down as a chronicler. His voice is present through the authority of the record he left, though the book keeps the man’s physical likeness beyond view.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 8
- Books
- 1
Ramon de Muntaner was a Catalan soldier and chronicler whose work is cited as evidence of the prevalence of French among the chivalry of the Morea in the fourteenth century. In this book he appears through the enduring testimony of his chronicle, not as an active participant in Marco Polo’s travels. No personal relationships or further arc are described.
Description
The book identifies Ramon de Muntaner as a Catalan soldier and chronicler, but supplies no physical portrait. His height, build, coloring, hair, eyes, face, clothing, and distinguishing features are unspecified; his soldierly and literary identities are the only visual-adjacent cues available.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
Appearances
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